Nicki Minaj Offers to Pay a Fan's Tuition

Rapper Nicki Minaj sent a tweet offering to pay the tuition of straight-A students. NBC was working to verify the offer. (Published Sunday, May 7, 2017)

Nicki Minaj decided to help out fans on Twitter Saturday night by offering to pay for more than $25,000 of their college costs.

She was promoting a contest on Twitter, in which fans who sent videos of themselves singing her new song "Regret in Your Tears" could win a free trip to meet her at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.